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Quotes About Planting

They let me know that we are here to create and that there's always enough in the garden, and we must defend that against our fear. We have to be playful as we plant, grow, and co-create.
~ Colette Baron Reid
I don't know what to make of myself. A lot of the time, despite my deepest hungers and best efforts, I see blackness. But I am planting a young oak tree. I really am. It'll be here centuries after I'm gone. Assuming I choose to leave.
~ Charles Bowden
He that plants thorns shall not gather roses.
~ Persian Proverb
A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit.
~ Greek proverb
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
~ Guru Nanak
Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
~ Sharon Salzberg
New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend.
~ John Lawson
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
~ Thomas Fuller
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
~ Thomas Merton
When we think "mission" we must think "church." And the best way to link church and mission is through church planting.
~ Tim Chester
Sembramos la semilla y la naturaleza nos da una cosecha correspondiente: esta es la ley en el plano físico.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Thou art fertile ground, and I will plant a garden in thee.
~ Orson Scott Card
It is a question, practically of relationship. We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe . . . . For the truth is, we are perishing for lack of fulfillment of our greater needs, we are cut off from the great sources of our inward nourishment and renewal, sources which flow eternally in the universe. Vitally the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.
~ May Sarton
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
~ Henry Van Dyke
For myself I will plant a cypress tree and it will outlive me. That's what I miss about the fields, the sense of the future as well as the present. That one day what you plant will spring up unexpectedly; a shoot, a tree, just when you were looking the other way, thinking about something else. I like to know that life will outlive me, that's a happiness Bonaparte never understood.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence.
~ John B. Hood
seed is a promise, Corinne, a guarantee. Plant it and watch it grow.
~ Unknown
What are you planting in your subconscious? Are you filling it with things that will help you stick to your convictions or are you filling it with things that are going to pull you away from your faith?
~ Patrick Jones
Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted.
~ Paulo Coelho
Aku akan menanamkan bibitbya dan Jepang akan memupuknya.
~ Cindy Adams
He is not in the habit of explaining himself. He is not in the habit of discussing his successes. But whenever good fortune has called on him, he has been there, planted on the threshold, ready to fling open the door to her timid scratch on the wood.
~ Hilary Mantel
Something grows from eyes, taking root as if a potato sends to earth what it can see, and yet the seeing part is what they say is poisonous about the potato. That first sprout is what can grow, planted, moving upward, seeing in light.
~ Linda Hogan